Pre-Purchase-Inspection

How to Get a Used Tesla Inspected Before You Buy (When Tesla Won't Do It)

You’ve found the used Model X. The photos look right, the test drive was fine, the seller seems honest. So you do what you’d do with any used car — call to book a pre-purchase inspection.

And you hit a wall. Tesla won’t inspect a car you don’t own yet.

This is one of the most common and least-expected roadblocks in the used-Tesla process, and it catches almost everyone off guard. Here’s why it happens, and — more usefully — the three real options you actually have.